Time can be exhausted for Master of Clocks Macron: What is the next for France?

After eight years in mandate, Emmanuel Macron’s position as president underwent increasing pressure as France’s political crisis degenerates.

Macron was called once Master of clocks – Master of clocks – But his mastery of timing is not what it was. For the third time in a year, his choice as Prime Minister has resigned and opinion polls suggest that almost three -quarters of voters think that the president should also resign.

Ally Édouard Philippe longtime, who was the first Macron Prime Minister from 2017 to 20 years old, urged him to appoint a technocratic Prime Minister and call the presidential elections in a “orderly” manner.

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced his resignation at the start of a day of political drama on Monday, after only 26 days of work.

A few hours later, he said that he had accepted Macron’s request to remain another 48 hours to organize late element talks with political parties “for the stability of the country”.

Underant twists and turns were the last of a long series of upheavals that started with Emmanuel Macron’s decision to call a parliamentary election in instruction in June 2024. The result was a suspended parliament during which centrist Macron partners lost their majority and had to ask for alliances with other parties.

The chief of one of these parties, Bruno Retailleau of the Conservative Republicans, withdrew from the government of Lecornu 2 p.m. after his announcement.

The great challenge to which Lecornu and his two predecessors were how to approach the paralyzing national debt of France and overcome the ideological divisions between the central parties which could be part of a government.

At the start of this year, public debt was 3,345 billion euros, or almost 114% of economic production (GDP), the third higher in the euro zone after Greece and Italy. France’s budget deficit this year is expected to reach 5.4% of GDP.

Michel Barnier and François Bayrou only lasted three and nine months respectively before being ousted in the votes of trust while they were trying to fight against the deficit with the austerity budgets.

Lecornu did not even manage to present a budgetary plan. Critics flocked on all sides as soon as he presented his cabinet on Sunday afternoon and Monday morning, he decided that his position was untenable.

He blamed his departure in the inhumable position of the parts which, he said: “All behave as if they had a majority”.

All parties have an eye on the next presidential votes in 2027, and they are also preparing for the possibility of parliamentary elections brought in case Macron dissolves parliament again.

The leaders who called Macron to resign for months are on the right and radical on the left.

Marine Le Pen and her young lieutenant of the far -right national rally, Jordan Bardella, are ready for the elections and refused Lecornu’s invitation to speak.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the Radical Left France Unbowed (LFI) agitated for the indictment of Macron, although it seems unlikely. He is supported by the Greens.

Olivier Faure’s center-left socialists were allied to the radical left in the last elections, but spoke to Lecornu provided he formed a left government.

Then there is Gabriel Attal, who directs Macron’s own central Renaissance party, but said he no longer understood the decisions of the president.

And on the center-right is Bruno Retailleau, whose republicans were part of the so-called common base (common platform) with centrists.

Lecornu has deeply had discussions with party representatives and has until Wednesday evening to present an “action and stability platform” in Macron.

There are four options – and none of them seem good.

• If Lecornu manages to persuade the parties in the center to form a sort of government, Macron will be able to appoint a new Prime Minister, which is. Lecornu said he did not want to take the work, although it was not a non -final. The omen are not great. When he resigned on Monday, Lecornu said: “I was ready to be compromised, but all the parties wanted the other party to adopt their full programs.” But France must transmit a sort of budget of 2026 to tackle its national debt, and the factions know it.
• If Lecornu fails, the Elysee indicated that Macron “would assume responsibility”. This would probably mean new parliamentary elections, which would spend bad news for its centrist allies and the socialists, but would benefit in particular to the National Rally of the right of Marine Le Pen.
• Macron’s presidency ends in 18 months, but he faces growing calls to resign. He repeatedly rejected the first presidential elections, but it is not out of the question. Macron’s former minister Benjamin Haddad argues that his resignation would make no sense because the next president would simply be confronted with the same problem: “The political fracture is there to stay.”
• Even without government agreement, the parties could set aside their differences in Parliament and reach a compromise on a limited budget. But French policy is not known for its compromise culture.

After his third prime minister in the past year announced his resignation on Monday, Macron made a long walk along the Seine river, his mobile phone in his ear.

A blow for cameras? Perhaps, but that was symbolic of the lonely nature of his position, because he confronts some of the most difficult choices of his presidency and some of his former allies seem to desert him.

But the president will have known for some time the political challenges to come and he is not the type to be abandoned without a fight – Or another attempt to stabilize an increasingly ungovernable France. There is a feeling that time can run for the master of clocks.